Every
year on January 1, millions of working class Americans make a million
New Year's Resolutions that they will break before they break a sweat
to keep them. Resolutions to stop smoking. Resolutions to lose weight.
Resolutions to get along with the in-laws. Resolutions not to be a sport's
nut TV couch potato. Resolutions to change any number of bad life choices.
But few, if any, resolutions to be a better citizen are made—or
kept. Nor are there any resolutions to be more watchful of, or more
vocal about the misdeeds of corrupt political leaders who have sold
their souls to the bribe-merchants of K Street, or the arrogance of
corporate fat cats and the elite bureaucrat partisans who see themselves
as the owners of this land and the managers of its people who are, themselves.
And, by extension, since they feel they are, we—the people—are
no longer construed to be citizens with inalienable, inherent rights.
Rather, we "the people" are now regarded as "commodities-of-the-rich."

New
Year's Eve should be, but isn't, a time of consequential contemplation
by serious thinkers speculating how best to correct the mistakes of
history in order to make our world a better place. Sadly, New Year's
Eve is nothing more than a gala of global pagan revelry to celebrate
the death of the old year and the birth of a new one with the most memorable
part of the event being the severity of the hangover the following day.

New
Year's Eve is the last day on the Georgian calendar. Throughout modern
times, New Year's Eve has been celebrated around the world with parties
and festivals. In the United States, over a million revelers cram into
Times Square every year to watch a 1,415 pound ball outfitted with more
than 9,500 light-emitting diodes drop from a flagpole atop the One Times
Square Building at midnight. Anything, I guess, justifies a party. Glitzy
parties everywhere in the world precede the countdown to the New Year
as more and more people in the growing global society join the revelry
to celebrate the passing of time.

Increasingly,
more American cities are cracking down on the revelry which includes
pointless celebratory gunfire and even more pointless excessive drinking.
More cities are cracking down on the excessive drinking with more sobriety
checkpoints designed to keep drunk drivers off the road as the nation
goes mad with headline-making risqué conduct that is increasingly
reminiscent of Sodom and Gomorrah. The punkish arrogance of today's
revelers evidences the moral decay of the nation, and the world.

If
we're still awake at midnight (with the odds of that happening being
only about 50/50), my wife and I toast the New Year and watch the human
sardines crammed into Times Square as the ball drops, glad that we had
the sanity not to be there. Unlike the revelers milling around Times
Square wearing sparkling, funky 2009 eyewear, equally festive dunces
caps, and tooting noisy little horns, we actually take a few minutes
and contemplate the year which has just passed into history. And, if
we are awake enough, we actually think about the ramifications the events
which happened in what is now last year will have in the new year. If
not, the morning papers will usually capsulate the doom and gloom of
2008 so we know what to expect in 2009. Nothing bodes well for 2009.
Goodbye, 2008. Welcome, 1929.

It
is difficult for a casual observer to grasp the fact that catastrophic
events like the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the banking collapse and
the Great Depression might actually have been planned, and that actions
that adversely impacted millions of people could have been deliberately
staged, or that such power actually existed then—and still exists
within our society today. Poll 100 people today and 99 of them will
tell you such power does not exist. They are wrong. It does. And, since
1995 that power has been manipulating the economies of the industrialized
world to covertly transfer the industrial wealth of the United States
to the emerging nations of the world where tomorrow's consumers, the
human capital of the corporate cartel, lives waiting for the US jobs
that will make them the primary consumers of the 21st century.

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The
foundation for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was laid in 1907 when
investment banker John Pierpont Morgan passed a rumor to the New York
Times that the Knickerbocker Bank in New York was insolvent, starting
a run not only on the Knickerbocker Bank but on other banks as well,
first in New York and then across the country. In Life Magazine's April
25, 1949 issue, Life writer Frederick Allen wrote that Morgan financial
interests took advantage of "...unsettled conditions that existed
in the fall of 1907 to precipitate the [Bank] Panic [of 1907], guiding
it shrewdly as it progressed..." in order, Allen supposed, to kill
rival banks and consolidate their holdings under the banner of J.P.
Morgan & Company. The chroniclers of the deed failed to grasp Morgan's
motive for the Bank Panic of 1907, but at least he properly identified
the culprit who instigated it. But, in 1907, nobody would have believed
that one of America's most important bankers could, or would, deliberately
precipitate a banking crisis that would cost millions of working class
depositors billions of dollars. Or that its purpose was to remove the
United States and the industrial nations of Europe from the gold standard
in order to create a global fiat monetary system controlled by the whims
of the world's bankers, industrialists and merchant princes.

Morgan's
manipulation in 1907 resulted in Congress enacting three resolutions
to amend the Constitution of the United States. The proposed 16th Amendment
would allow the federal government to legislate a national tax on incomes.
The proposed 17th Amendment would remove control of the US Senate from
the States. The proposed 18th Amendment, which was soundly defeated
in the US Senate, would have removed the US monetary system from the
gold standard.

Prior
to the ratification of the 17th Amendment on April 8, 1913, the State
legislatures elected their US Senators and controlled how they voted
on Capitol Hill. Removing that power from the States was needed to successfully
create a permanent central bank in the United States since the US Senate
defeated every attempt to legislate a new central bank since President
Andrew Jackson killed an attempt to recharter the Second Bank of the
United States in 1835. Jackson denounced central banks as an engine
of corruption. Defying the money powers under the control of Second
Bank president Nicholas Biddle, President Jackson promised to veto any
banking bill enacted by Congress, telling the media that "...if
Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money,
it was given to them to use by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals
or corporations." Jackson successfully killed Biddle's central
bank.

In
return for Jackson's killing the Second Bank, Biddle hired an unemployed
house painter to assassinate him. On Jan. 30, 1835 while Jackson was
attending a congressional funeral in the Capitol Building, Richard Lawrence
attempted to shoot him with two pistols. Both misfired. At his trial,
Lawrence confessed that he was hired by Biddle to kill Jackson. The
jury chose to believe that Lawrence was deranged. He died in an insane
asylum in Washington, DC in 1861. From 1836 to 1913 the United States
did not have a central bank.

[Read
"The
Coming Battle" published in 1899 how recessions were created
through the 1800s]

According
to Milton Friedman, "The Federal Reserve System [was] established
to prevent what actually happened. [The Fed was theoretically] set up
to avoid a situation in which you would have to close down banks, in
which you would have a banking crisis. And yet, under the Federal Reserve
System, you had the worst banking crisis in the history of the United
States. There's no [better] example...of a government measure which
produced so clearly the opposite results that were intended." Had
the American people been good stewards of democracy and students of
history, the Federal Reserve System would not exist because the American
people would have fired the corrupt Congressmen and Senators who enacted
the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and they would have impeached an even
more corrupt President Thomas Woodrow Wilson for signing the legislation
into law on Dec. 23, 1913.

Very
clearly, Thomas Jefferson warned the public that: "If the American
people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored
to the people, to whom it properly belongs. The modern theory of the
perpetuation of debt has drenched the Earth with blood and crushed its
inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating." Too bad the US school
system—whose curriculum is largely funded by federal grants and
the nation's wealthiest foundations owned by the world's wealthiest
families and implemented by the National
Education Association, a US congressional corporation. Missing from
today's public school curriculum are the writings of America's Founding
Fathers and the constitutional history of the United States. Taught
instead is history from a globalist perspective.

When
Americans failed to comprehend the legal majesty of the Bill of Rights
that protected them from the prostitutes of government, and when they
failed to understand how the Constitution of the United States applied
to them, they found themselves at the mercy of an increasingly totalitarian
government that had spent 100 years abridging the rights of both the
people and the States.

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But
the American people were too busy enjoying the good life to pay attention
to the prostitutes of Pennsylvania Avenue. Ask any American male who
won the Super Bowl last year and nine out of ten will correctly say
the New York Giants. Half of them can tell you the storyline of at least
one commercial they saw during the game, but less than half of them
can give you the names of their US senators, their Congressman and the
name of their Assemblyman or Delegate to the State legislature. And,
as hard as it is to believe, less than 20% of them can tell you the
name of their local mayor. They know virtually nothing about the politicians
they elect to public office, least of all if he or she is honest. For
part two click below.

Jon Christian Ryter is the pseudonym of a
former newspaper reporter with the Parkersburg, WV Sentinel. He authored
a syndicated newspaper column, Answers From The Bible, from the mid-1970s
until 1985. Answers From The Bible was read weekly in many suburban
markets in the United States.

Today, Jon is an advertising
executive with the Washington Times. His website, www.jonchristianryter.com
has helped him establish a network of mid-to senior-level Washington
insiders who now provide him with a steady stream of material for use
both in his books and in the investigative reports that are found on
his website.

It is now 2009. But,
we are on the cusp of March, 1933. This is not a good time for America.
It's going to get worse. A lot worse. How much worse? Find a history book.
Make sure it was copyrighted before 1960. Flip to the 1920s and read to
1941.